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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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Happy solstice!
(As of about 6 hours ago...)
(Image from wikipedia commons, public domain)
Image not to scale. 🙂
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Recommendations wanted: cross platform relational database app.
I used HandBase for over a decade, starting with my palm pilot! It was a lightweight & powerful, intuitive app that made it easy to create relational databases that could either sync w/Access or its own desktop version.
It hasn't updated in years. Likely abandoned.
Anyone know of a similar product that will sync b/w android & windows?
I loathe software-as-a-service & would rather just pay for a program.
(Boosts welcome!)
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I'm sure you love astronomical images taken with professional telescopes. But do you know what it takes to actually make them? You'll be surprised by how many people are involved!
I just wrote an article explaining the whole process, from the moment an astronomer has an idea to when you see the final result.
Check it out: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/it-takes-a-village/
📷 ESO
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Alt und langweilig: Astronautin verkleidet sich in Star Trek-Manier auf der ISS.
Neu und aufregend: Astronautin stellt auf der ISS das Bild eines SciFi-Films nach, in dem es um eine Astronautin auf der ISS geht. 🤯
Well done, Samantha Cristoforetti!
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Slow Fourier Transform https://moscow.sci-hub.se/2073/a1d433e53f69bee68d6e343100aee243/hinzen2013.pdf
> The Mader–Ott Harmonic Analyzer (MOHA) is a high-precision mechanical instrument for determining the coefficients of a Fourier series.
> With the reactivation of the mechanical harmonic analyzer, we have been able to reproduce earlier results that showed that at least the lowest 25 Fourier coefficients [..]
> Considering the fact that the analysis of the first 10 coefficients of our test signal took on average about 2 hours, the title of this contribution seems justified. #retrocomputing
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there are so many banal, pedantic toots I have stopped myself from making y'all are so lucky
#youtube is just extremely bad at showing me updates from channels I'm actually subscribed to. I happened to go to my dashboard page and then I see updates I missed. They show recommendations for stuff after every video: opportunities to show me things I explicitly asked to be shown. Instead they show me crap I wasn't looking for.
It may be dead, but its ghost will haunt corpo intranets and industrial control systems for years to come
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/asia/internet-explorer-gravestone-viral-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html
#software #ripIE #web
unexpected levels of jank remain in the #Linux desktop experience: my laptop touchpad's middle button stopped working, but it started working again after I changed to another TTY then back
death mention
so, they all died. I saw one on the ground yesterday morning; the one in the makeshift nest was dead; and then I found the last of them dead on its back on the ground this morning. the parents are still around and have returned to the nest, but I'm not sure they'll stay.
Sorry if you were looking at this thread expecting something sweet or uplifting, but life ain't a fairytale.
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These Erasers slowly go bald as you use them
I'm not sure if #wordle has just run through all the common words or if they're sabotaging it. some really dodgy ones lately
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Are you a researcher? If so, I'd be eternally grateful if you would consider completing this questionnaire about PIDs. It doesn't matter if you know or don't know what PIDs are because all views are equally important in this work! :-) https://strath.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bCmMiz8rc6CMMMC #research #academia #PhD #scholcomm
I've seen four nestlings now, all fallen from the nest. one was dead when I got home. second had trouble staying in the nest so i made a makeshift nest out of a sock (not sure if that's ok). third, i think, was pushing number two out of the nest--seems unfazed and just wants fed now it's back. last I basically rolled into the nest. wasn't dead but pretty weak-looking.
parents are still around so I reckon at least the lively one I put back in the original nest can survive. dunno about the other two, but I'm pulling for em.
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I was really depressed for the last two days because I left my ring on the lawn and the crows stole it BC shiny. It's irreplaceable and Akkas gave it to me two years ago so I was devastated. I dredged the pond and used a metal detector all over the lawn but it was gone. But today I cooked the crows bacon in the morning and this afternoon it was returned RIGHT WHERE I LEFT THE BACON!!!!!
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I mean, take a look at some of these close-ups. Tons of potential targets for study. Paradise for rock nerds like myself.
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From earlier, distant views, my team nicknamed this area “the bacon strip.” (My overhead map shows why.) Now that I’m up on top, we’re calling it “Hogwallow Flats” – and the nearby rocks are a sight to behold. My team is happy as pigs in mud(stone)!
all the rhetoric in the United States on energy use is about adding more. not a single prominent voice is even suggesting that we use less... this isn't a strictly negative position: we can find greater efficiency
#energy #fossilfuel #us #politics
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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